Steve Pace 7 Jan 2010
One planet has been reviled, feared, and mysticised throughout the ages. Folklore, scriptures, and legends have names for it such as Wormwood, Nibiru, and The Destroyer. The varied ancient tales are true. The planet existed. Our ancestors witnessed its destruction, along with most of their own people. The name of it today is the Taurids Meteoroid Complex.
Approximately 25,000 years ago, the planet sized object was orbiting our inner solar system. The object’s elliptical orbit around the sun extended towards Jupiter on one side, and directly intersected earth’s orbit on the other. This is scientifically accepted fact, not fiction or fantasy. I can only imagine the spectacle of that planet approaching Earth.
Most likely, the heavy hands of Jupiter and the Sun destroyed the planet, but its very close encounters with earth undoubtedly strained its structure as well. These same gravitational forces have shaped the debris into a ‘tube’ of rocks called a stream disc, as well as several dense core streams, or ‘belts’, within the disc.
The planetary debris stream equals more mass than any other object in the inner solar system. The countless rocks of all sizes have velocities in excess of 25 kilometers per second. When combined with the orbital velocity of Earth, even small rocks possess a fantastic amount of impact energy.
The planetary debris stream equals more mass than any other object in the inner solar system. The countless rocks of all sizes have velocities in excess of 25 kilometers per second. When combined with the orbital velocity of Earth, even small rocks possess a fantastic amount of impact energy.
The debris formed two main belts called the North and South Taurids, and a minor belt called the Beta Taurids. The asteroid Apophis is a Taurids rock, as well as the Comet/asteroid 2P/ENKE. The belts of debris, as well as the entire stream disc, shifts and drifts. There are several different cosmologic forces that influence the stream, and where it drifts next is anybody’s guess.
Earth’s intersection with a dense core stream of Taurids meteoroids will produce a constant bombardment of meteorites lasting an entire week or longer. It would literally be an annual global meteorite storm lasting over a hundred years. Our planets’ travel through this dense core stream would be in October or November of every year. The meteors would gradually intensify for decades, becoming an annual global destruction, then slowly fade away.
Most of the meteoroids will be too small to worry about, just pebbles. But many rocks that are the size of an automobile or a house will penetrate the atmosphere and impact at ground level. Thousands of them. All sizes and shapes. Anywhere and everywhere.
Most of the meteoroids will be too small to worry about, just pebbles. But many rocks that are the size of an automobile or a house will penetrate the atmosphere and impact at ground level. Thousands of them. All sizes and shapes. Anywhere and everywhere.
A lot of the meteors will explode in the atmosphere, creating disasters like the Tunguska Event. That is believed to have been a Taurids rock as well. This particular type of explosion would produce effects the same as a large atmospheric nuclear explosion. The event would produce a phenomenal amount of these airbursts. All of it happening simultaneously with the ground impacts.
Such a catastrophe would destroy civilization as we know it. This has occurred in the past. I suspect this is why some ancient civilizations maintained underground habitats.
Virtually all of the evidence of these relatively ‘small’ impacts and atmospheric explosions would not be visible just a few millennia later. But the evidence is overwhelming that the 2nd cycle past, about 12,000 years ago, the Taurids wiped out the Clovis culture. This event created a firestorm across the entirety of North America. It literally destroyed most all plant and animal life on the continent. This same cycle either produced or ended the Younger/Dryas Period, a sudden ice age that lasted over one thousand years.
The last cycle, around 6,000 years ago, produced the Druids, the Sumerians, and the Olmec. As civilizations developed, the Hebrew and Mayan calendars commenced anew. All previous knowledge was lost and only a scant few puzzling artifacts survived. History was born again.
The expectations from previous studies of the Taurids are that an Earth intersection of a dense core stream is about one thousand years from now. However, that would require an assumption of a stable stream, and it isn’t. The debris chain travels and can develop large perturbations. These are practically impossible to predict, even though universe has a habit of repeating itself like clockwork.
The cycle due now, between 2000 and 2400 AD, could be visible soon. We can expect increased activity to start any year now, in October and November, especially. Atmospheric bursts are already happening. There were at least two in 2009. We had a few minor impacts last year, too. It will be newsworthy when one happens over a populated area. It may not start for another two hundred years, as well.
About ten years ago, you may recall, NASA became very interested in asteroids. Several asteroid missions quickly developed and were immediately conducted. This is relative to light speed when compared to past missions by that agency. The missions were quite unusual as well.
I fully understand their sense of urgency. I’m just glad to see they have officially awakened to the inevitable encounter with an asteroid. I wonder if they are developing multiple target capabilities? They’ll need it soon enough.
In the meantime, the Great Serpent's forked tongue comes perilously close to our destruction every year. It's undulating back displaying the ripples of close encounters with equally cold and lifeless bodies unknown to us.
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